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Post by gerrymanning on Nov 27, 2017 21:50:53 GMT 1
With regard to Barry's picture of the T-33 he has in fact got the right story but the wrong way around. I have seen a post on the SAHG site taken from the September 1963 edition of Lilly World (that has his picture by the way). A 12 year-old girl in GERMANY was ill with "Wilson's Disease" and needed Penicillamine. This was manufactured by Dista Products in Speke. The Lufwaffe sent the T-33 (described of course as a jet-fighter) to collect 100 capsules of the drug and the girl had them by lunch time. It does not say if she recovered or not.
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Post by viscount on Nov 27, 2017 22:08:52 GMT 1
The Daily Post also had the story the other way around - and is the only place I've previously seen a photo of the aircraft at Speke. I though have wondered, the routing being Pferdsfeld-Langar, if speed was the essence, why not take on fuel at Liverpool and not stop at Langar en route back to West Germany? On the other hand Liverpool was then a centre of excellence for medicine production.
The date was Tuesday 21st May 1963.
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Post by gerrymanning on Nov 27, 2017 22:34:08 GMT 1
Brian, could the reason to stop at Langer be because was it was an RCAF base at the time and they could uplift fuel without much paperwork? If they topped up the tanks at Speke they would have had to pay for it and the Luftwaffe would not have an account with the local supplier.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2017 23:18:11 GMT 1
Thanks for clearing that up Gerry. Thinking about it, it perhaps makes more sense; as Viscount points out, given the pharmaceutical production which was taking place at the time. It was all done in a bit of a hurry and with some degree of secrecy, so it's not surprising that even the tower had the wrong story. (It was the tower who informed us).
The stop at Langar, whilst handy for refuelling, may have been more to do with HM Customs rather than anything else. It would have been quicker and easier to do the customs clearance at a military base, (my own experience of clearing customs at military bases is best described as perfunctory), rather than going through the whole rigmarole at Speke with all the paperwork etc., even for urgent medicine, that would have been required in the 1960s.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2017 11:10:43 GMT 1
Interesting picture of the Mossie, Ron. I assume that's No 50 hangar, because Fed Fruit had long gone by then. Looks like it went tech and put there for maintenance to take place.
1st of January 1964, in the days when it wasn't a public holiday!
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Post by ronturner on Dec 6, 2017 8:19:47 GMT 1
Yes hangar 50, but I do not know why.
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Post by viscount on Dec 6, 2017 10:43:24 GMT 1
Mosquito TT.35 TA634/G-AWJV has featured as a topic on nwan forum before. derbosoft.proboards.com/thread/2946Although currently stripped of images by Photobucket, there are a number of text posts exploring aspects of the aircraft's arrival and departure from Speke. The aircraft was purchased by Liverpool City Corporation as the suggestion of a MGAE (Merseyside Group of Aviation Enthusiasts) member, Don Stephens. after arrival on 6th November 1963, she was initially it was kept in No.50 hangar down towards the river - the hangar recently vacated by Federated Fruit. Later it was moved into the back of No.39 when that became the Aero Club hangar for long term storage as there was no clear plan as to what to do with her once the original enthusiasm had worn off and those responsible moved on. Later still another move, this time into the back of the much drier No.2 hangar when that was used by private light aircraft and by Cambrian Airways. During 1968 an opportunity to make some money appeared with a flying role in the film 'Mosquito Squadron'. After being made airworthy she was away at Bovingdon 17th June to 16th July 1968. For this work she was provided with civil registration G-AWJV, but it was never worn externally. There was a plan to keep her airworthy for special appearances and film work, however this did not materialise and she was donated to the Mosquito Aviation Museum at London Colney, departing Liverpool by road 29th September 1970. Before the film work she was in normal RAF 1950s target tug colours, silver top, yellow and black diagonal lines underneath and black individual code '53'. For the film work she acquired standard RAF camouflage colours and code 'HT:G' which was retained until after departure to the Mosquito Aircraft Museum. Sometime soon I will restore my images to a number of the 'Nostalgia' section threads, including TA634's.
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Post by ronturner on Dec 7, 2017 9:51:56 GMT 1
One of the iconic sights of my time in our hobby. My records show this picture as being taken 1/1/1960 but I seriously doubt that for many reasons, not least the obvious clement weather. The year could be well be 1960. G-AGHJ DC-3 @pionair@ BEA Speke circa 1960 by Ron Turner, on Flickr
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